To:  UNIEA Members
From:  Robert E. Kramer
Subject:  UNIEA Membership Listings in UNI Electronic Phone Book
Date:  October 6, 1999

As you know, the Association has contacted the university administration on several occasions during the past two years regarding the fact that retired faculty and staff names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are not accessible using the UNI (Web) online electronic Phone Book (i.e., at http://access.uni. edu/phone).  We have (finally) been informed that there are some technical issues involved in our not being listed in that source. Below is copy of an e-mail I received from Valerie Turner regarding this matter.

We are currently not listing emeritus faculty in the phonebook due to the way that information is maintained on the mainframe.  The directory information we display in the online phonebook is extracted from the faculty, staff and student databases on the mainframe.  Through the files on the mainframe, we can tell who is emeritus faculty, but those files don't keep a deceased date, so we would be putting deceased faculty in the phonebook.  Also, some of the emeritus faculty like to have their offices listed in the phonebook and others do not.  The mainframe keeps the office addresses for historical reasons, but there isn't a code in those mainframe files to say print or don't print the office address.  These files will be replaced by the MEMPHIS project within the next few years, so this information could be maintained in the new system however we will have wait until then to display this information properly. That is why I added the link on the phonebook page to the Emeritus Association directory.  Your information is much more accurate then we could maintain at this point.

Val Turner
Data Access Team
ITS-Information Systems

The MEMPHIS project that Valerie cites is a new UNI mainframe computer.